- RT# 32905, broken handling of UTF-8 strings.
A new flag -utf8 causes perltidy assume UTF-8 encoding for input and
output of an io stream. Thanks to Sebastian Podjasek for a patch.
This feature may not work correctly in older versions of Perl.
It worked in a linux version 5.10.1 but not in a Windows version 5.8.3 (but
otherwise perltidy ran correctly).

- Warning files now report perltidy VERSION. Suggested by John Karr.
- Fixed long flag --nostack-closing-tokens (-nsct has always worked though).
This was due to a typo. This also fixed --nostack-opening-tokens to
behave correctly. Thanks to Rob Dixon.

- Fixed RT #94902: abbreviation parsing in .perltidyrc files was not
working for multi-line abbreviations. Thanks to Eric Fung for
supplying a patch.
- Fixed RT #95708, misparsing of a hash when the first key was a perl
keyword, causing a semicolon to be incorrectly added.

- Fixed RT #94338 for-loop in a parenthesized block-map. A code block within
parentheses of a map, sort, or grep function was being mistokenized. In
rare cases this could produce in an incorrect error message. The fix will
produce some minor formatting changes. Thanks to Daniel Trizen
discovering and documenting this.

- Updated documentation to clarify the behavior of the -io flag
in response to RT #95709. You can add -noll or -l=0 to prevent
long comments from being outdented when -io is used.

- Added a check to prevent a problem reported in RT #81866, where large
scripts which had been compressed to a single line could not be formatted
because of a check for VERSION for MakeMaker. The workaround was to
use -nvpl, but this shouldn't be necessary now.

- Fixed RT #96101; Closing brace of anonymous sub in a list was being
indented. For example, the closing brace of the anonymous sub below
will now be lined up with the word 'callback'. This problem
occured if there was no comma after the closing brace of the anonymous sub.
This update may cause minor changes to formatting of code with lists
of anonymous subs, especially TK code.
# OLD
my @menu_items = (

- Fixed RT #94190 and debian Bug #742004: perltidy.LOG file left behind.
Thanks to George Hartzell for debugging this. The problem was
caused by the memoization speedup patch in version 20121207. An
unwanted flag was being set which caused a LOG to be written if
perltidy was called multiple times.

- New default behavior for LOG files: If the source is from an array or
string (through a call to the perltidy module) then a LOG output is only
possible if a logfile stream is specified. This is to prevent
unexpected perltidy.LOG files.

- Fixed debian Bug #740670, insecure temporary file usage. File::Temp is now
used to get a temporary file. Thanks to Don Anderson for a patch.
- Any -b (--backup-and-modify-in-place) flag is silently ignored when a
source stream, destination stream, or standard output is used.
This is because the -b flag may have been in a .perltidyrc file and
warnings break Test::NoWarnings. Thanks to Marijn Brand.

- The flag -cab=n or --comma-arrow-breakpoints=n has been generalized
to give better control over breaking open short containers. The
possible values are now:

n=0 break at all commas after =>
n=1 stable: break at all commas after => if container is open,
EXCEPT FOR one-line containers
n=2 break at all commas after =>, BUT try to form the maximum
maximum one-line container lengths
n=3 do not treat commas after => specially at all
n=4 break everything: like n=0 but also break a short container with
a => not followed by a comma
n=5 stable: like n=1 but ALSO break at open one-line containers (default)

New values n=4 and n=5 have been added to allow short blocks to be
broken open. The new default is n=5, stable. It should more closely
follow the breaks in the input file, and previously formatted code
should remain unchanged. If this causes problems use -cab=1 to recover
the former behavior. Thanks to Tony Maszeroski for the suggestion.

To illustrate the need for the new options, if perltidy is given
the following code, then the old default (-cab=1) was to close up
the 'index' container even if it was open in the source. The new
default (-cab=5) will keep it open if it was open in the source.

- New debug flag --memoize (-mem). This version contains a
patch supplied by Jonathan Swartz which can significantly speed up
repeated calls to Perl::Tidy::perltidy in a single process by caching
the result of parsing the formatting parameters. A factor of up to 10
speedup was achieved for masontidy (https://metacpan.org/module/masontidy).
The memoization patch is on by default but can be deactivated for
testing with -nmem (or --no-memoize).

- New flag -tso (--tight-secret-operators) causes certain perl operator
sequences (secret operators) to be formatted "tightly" (without spaces).
The most common of these are 0 + and + 0 which become 0+ and +0. The
operators currently modified by this flag are:
=( )= 0+ +0 ()x!! ~~<> ,=>
Suggested by by Philippe Bruhat. See https://metacpan.org/module/perlsecret
This flag is off by default.
- New flag -vmll (--variable-maximum-line-length) makes the maximum
line length increase with the nesting depth of a line of code.
Basically, it causes the length of leading whitespace to be ignored when
setting line breaks, so the formatting of a block of code is independent
of its nesting depth. Try this option if you have deeply nested
code or data structures, perhaps in conjunction with the -wc flag
described next. The default is not todo this.
- New flag -wc=n (--whitespace-cycle=n) also addresses problems with
very deeply nested code and data structures. When this parameter is
used and the nesting depth exceeds the value n, the leading whitespace
will be reduced and start at 1 again. The result is that deeply
nested blocks of code will shift back to the left. This occurs cyclically
to any nesting depth. This flag may be used either with or without -vmll.
The default is not to use this (-wc=0).

- Fixed RT #78764, error parsing smartmatch operator followed by anonymous
hash or array and then a ternary operator; two examples:

qr/3/ ~~ ['1234'] ? 1 : 0;
map { $_ ~~ [ '0', '1' ] ? 'x' : 'o' } @a;

- Fixed problem with specifying spaces around arrows using -wls='->'
and -wrs='->'. Thanks to Alain Valleton for documenting this problem.

- Implemented RT #53183, wishlist, lines of code with the same indentation
level which are contained with multiple stacked opening and closing tokens
(requested with flags -sot -sct) now have reduced indentation.

- New flag -act=n (--all-containers-tightness=n) is an abbreviation for
-pt=n -sbt=n -bt=n -bbt=n, where n=0,1, or 2. It simplifies input when all
containers have the same tightness. Using the same example:

There is, at present, no flag to place these closing braces at the end
of the previous line. It seems difficult to develop good rules for
doing this for a wide variety of code and data structures.

- Parameters defining block types may use a wildcard '*' to indicate
all block types. Previously it was not possible to include bare blocks.
- A flag -sobb (--stack-opening-block-brace) has been introduced as an
alias for -bbvt=2 -bbvtl='*'. So for example the following test code:

{{{{{{{ $testing }}}}}}}

cannot be formatted as above but can at least be kept vertically compact
using perltidy -sobb -scbb

{ { { { { { { $testing
} } } } } } }

Or even, perltidy -sobb -scbb -i=1 -bbt=2
{{{{{{{$testing
}}}}}}}

- Error message improved for conflicts due to -pbp; thanks to Djun Kim.
- Fixed RT #80645, error parsing special array name '@$' when used as
@{$} or $#{$}
- Eliminated the -chk debug flag which was included in version 20010406 to
do a one-time check for a bug with multi-line quotes. It has not been
needed since then.

- Added flag -iscl (--ignore-side-comment-lengths) which causes perltidy
to ignore the length of side comments when setting line breaks,
RT #71848. The default is to include the length of side comments when
breaking lines to stay within the length prescribed by the -l=n
maximum line length parameter. For example,

Default behavior on a single line with long side comment:
$vmsfile =~ s/;[\d\-]*$//
; # Clip off version number; we can use a newer version as well
perltidy -iscl leaves the line intact:

$vmsfile =~ s/;[\d\-]*$//; # Clip off version number; we can use a newer version as well

- Fixed RT #78182, side effects with STDERR. Error handling has been
revised and the documentation has been updated. STDERR can now be
redirected to a string reference, and perltidy now returns an
error flag instead of calling die when input errors are detected.
If the error flag is set then no tidied output was produced.
See man Perl::Tidy for an example.

- Added abbreviations -conv (--converge) to simplify iteration control.
-conv is equivalent to -it=4 and will insure that the tidied code is
converged to its final state with the minimum number of iterations.

- Minor formatting modifications have been made to insure convergence.

- Simplified and hopefully improved the method for guessing the starting
indentation level of entabbed code. Added flag -dt=n (--default_tabsize=n)
which might be helpful if the guessing method does not work well for
some editors.

- Added support for stacked labels, upper case X/B in hex and binary, and
CORE:: namespace.

- Corrected problem introduced by using a chomp on scalar references, RT #77978

- Added support for Perl 5.14 package block syntax, RT #78114.

- A convergence test is made if three or more iterations are requested with
the -it=n parameter to avoid wasting computer time. Several hundred Mb of
code gleaned from the internet were searched with the results that:
- It is unusual for two iterations to be required unless a major
style change is being made.
- Only one case has been found where three iterations were required.
- No cases requiring four iterations have been found with this version.
For the previous version several cases where found the results could
oscillate between two semi-stable states. This version corrects this.

So if it is important that the code be converged it is okay to set -it=4
with this version and it will probably stop after the second iteration.

- Improved ability to identify and retain good line break points in the
input stream, such as at commas and equals. You can always tell
perltidy to ignore old breakpoints with -iob.

- Fixed glitch in which a terminal closing hash brace followed by semicolon
was not outdented back to the leading line depth like other closing
tokens. Thanks to Keith Neargarder for noting this.

- Removed extra indentation given to trailing 'if' and 'unless' clauses
without parentheses because this occasionally produced undesirable
results. This only applies where parens are not used after the if or
unless.

This is probably true of almost all existing perltidyrc files,
but if you get an error message about bad parameters
involving a '#' the first time you run this version, please check the side
comments in your perltidyrc file, and add a space before the # if necessary.
You can quickly see the contents your perltidyrc file, if any, with the
command:

perltidy -dpro

The reason for this change is that some parameters naturally involve
the # symbol, and this can get interpreted as a side comment unless the
parameter is quoted. For example, to define -sphb=# it used to be necessary
to write
-sbcp='#'
to keep the # from becoming part of a comment. This was causing
trouble for new users. Now it can also be written without quotes:
-sbcp=#

- Fixed bug in processing some .perltidyrc files containing parameters with
an opening brace character, '{'. For example the following was
incorrectly processed:
--static-block-comment-prefix="^#{2,}[^\s#]"
Thanks to pdagosto.

- Added flag -boa (--break-at-old-attribute-breakpoints) which retains
any existing line breaks at attribute separation ':'. This is now the
default, use -nboa to deactivate. Thanks to Daphne Phister for the patch.
For example, given the following code, the line breaks at the ':'s will be
retained:
my @field
: field
: Default(1)
: Get('Name' => 'foo') : Set('Name');

whereas the previous version would have output a single line. If
the attributes are on a single line then they will remain on a single line.
- Added new flags --blank-lines-before-subs=n (-blbs=n) and
--blank-lines-before-packages=n (-blbp=n) to put n blank lines before
subs and packages. The old flag -bbs is now equivalent to -blbs=1 -blbp=1.
and -nbbs is equivalent to -blbs=0 -blbp=0. Requested by M. Schwern and
several others.

- Added feature -nsak='*' meaning no space between any keyword and opening
paren. This avoids listing entering a long list of keywords. Requested
by M. Schwern.

- Added option to delete a backup of original file with in-place-modify (-b)
if there were no errors. This can be requested with the flag -bext='/'.
See documentation for details. Requested by M. Schwern and others.

- Fixed bug where the module postfilter parameter was not applied when -b
flag was used. This was discovered during testing.

- Fixed in-place-modify (-b) to work with symbolic links to source files.
Thanks to Ted Johnson.

- Fixed bug where the Perl::Tidy module did not allow -b to be used
in some cases.

- No extra blank line is added before a comment which follows
a short line ending in an opening token, for example like this:
OLD:
if (

# unless we follow a blank or comment line
$last_line_leading_type !~ /^[#b]$/
...

NEW:
if (
# unless we follow a blank or comment line
$last_line_leading_type !~ /^[#b]$/
...

The blank is not needed for readability in these cases because there
already is already space above the comment. If a blank already
exists there it will not be removed, so this change should not
change code which has previously been formatted with perltidy.
Thanks to R.W.Stauner.

- Likewise, no extra blank line is added above a comment consisting of a
single #, since nothing is gained in readability.

- Fixed error in which a blank line was removed after a #>>> directive.
Thanks to Ricky Morse.

- Unnecessary semicolons after given/when/default blocks are now removed.

- Fixed bug where an unwanted blank line could be added before
pod text in __DATA__ or __END__ section. Thanks to jidani.

- Changed exit flags from 1 to 0 to indicate success for -help, -version,
and all -dump commands. Also added -? as another way to dump the help.
Requested by Keith Neargarder.

- Fixed bug where .ERR and .LOG files were not written except for -it=2 or more

- Fixed bug where trailing blank lines at the end of a file were dropped when
-it>1.

- Fixed bug where a line occasionally ended with an extra space. This reduces
rhe number of instances where a second iteration gives a result different
from the first.

- Updated documentation to note that the Tidy.pm module <stderr> parameter may
not be a reference to SCALAR or ARRAY; it must be a file.
- Syntax check with perl now work when the Tidy.pm module is processing
references to arrays and strings. Thanks to Charles Alderman.

- Zero-length files are no longer processed due to concerns for data loss
due to side effects in some scenarios.

- block labels, if any, are now included in closing side comment text
when the -csc flag is used. Suggested by Aaron. For example,
the label L102 in the following block is now included in the -csc text:

- added new flag -it=n or --iterations=n
This flag causes perltidy to do n complete iterations.
For most purposes the default of n=1 should be satisfactory. However n=2
can be useful when a major style change is being made, or when code is being
beautified on check-in to a source code control system. The run time will be
approximately proportional to n, and it should seldom be necessary to use a
value greater than n=2. Thanks to Jonathan Swartz

- A configuration file pathname begins with three dots, e.g.
".../.perltidyrc", indicates that the file should be searched for starting
in the current directory and working upwards. This makes it easier to have
multiple projects each with their own .perltidyrc in their root directories.
Thanks to Jonathan Swartz for this patch.

- Added flag --notidy which disables all formatting and causes the input to be
copied unchanged. This can be useful in conjunction with hierarchical
F<.perltidyrc> files to prevent unwanted tidying.
Thanks to Jonathan Swartz for this patch.

- Added prefilters and postfilters in the call to the Tidy.pm module.
Prefilters and postfilters. The prefilter is a code reference that
will be applied to the source before tidying, and the postfilter
is a code reference to the result before outputting.

Thanks to Jonathan Swartz for this patch. He writes:
This is useful for all manner of customizations. For example, I use
it to convert the 'method' keyword to 'sub' so that perltidy will work for
Method::Signature::Simple code:

- The starting indentation level of sections of code entabbed with -et=n
is correctly guessed if it was also produced with the same -et=n flag. This
keeps the indentation stable on repeated formatting passes within an editor.
Thanks to Sam Kington and Glenn.

- Functions with prototype '&' had a space between the function and opening
peren. This space now only occurs if the flag --space-function-paren (-sfp)
is set. Thanks to Zrajm Akfohg.

- Patch to never put spaces around a bare word in braces beginning with ^ as in:
my $before = ${^PREMATCH};
even if requested with the -bt=0 flag because any spaces cause a syntax error in perl.
Thanks to Fabrice Dulanoy.

- added new flag -cscb or --closing-side-comments-balanced
When using closing-side-comments, and the closing-side-comment-maximum-text
limit is exceeded, then the comment text must be truncated. Previous
versions of perltidy terminate with three dots, and this can still be
achieved with -ncscb:
perltidy -csc -ncscb

} ## end foreach my $foo (sort { $b cmp $a ...
However this causes a problem with older editors which cannot recognize
comments or are not configured to doso because they cannot "bounce" around in
the text correctly. The B<-cscb> flag tries to help them by
appending appropriate terminal balancing structure:
perltidy -csc -cscb

} ## end foreach my $foo (sort { $b cmp $a ... })
Since there is much to be gained and little to be lost by doing this,
the default is B<-cscb>. Use B<-ncscb> if you do not want this.

Thanks to Daniel Becker for suggesting this option.

- After an isolated closing eval block the continuation indentation will be
removed so that the braces line up more like other blocks. Thanks to Yves Orton.

OLD:
eval {
#STUFF;
1; # return true
}
or do {
#handle error
};

NEW:
eval {
#STUFF;
1; # return true
} or do {
#handle error
};

-A new flag -asbl (or --opening-anonymous-sub-brace-on-new-line) has
been added to put the opening brace of anonymous sub's on a new line,
as in the following snippet:

my $code = sub
{
my $arg = shift;
return $arg->(@_);
};

This was not possible before because the -sbl flag only applies to named
subs. Thanks to Benjamin Krupp.

-Fix tokenization bug with the following snippet
print 'hi' if { x => 1, }->{x};
which resulted in a semicolon being added after the comma. The workaround
was to use -nasc, but this is no longer necessary. Thanks to Brian Duggan.

-Fixed problem in which an incorrect error message could be triggered
by the (unusual) combination of parameters -lp -i=0 -l=2 -ci=0 for
example. Thanks to Richard Jelinek.

-A new flag --keep-old-blank-lines=n has been added to
give more control over the treatment of old blank lines in
a script. The manual has been revised to discuss the new
flag and clarify the treatment of old blank lines. Thanks
to Oliver Schaefer.

-Fixed problem where perltidy could run for a very long time
when given certain non-perl text files.

-Line breaks in un-parenthesized lists now try to follow
line breaks in the input file rather than trying to fill
lines. This usually works better, but if this causes
trouble you can use -iob to ignore any old line breaks.
Example for the following input snippet:

-Added -bbao and -baao options (--break-before-all-operators and
--break-after-all-operators) to simplify command lines and configuration
files. These define an initial preference for breaking at operators which can
be modified with -wba and -wbb flags. For example to break before all operators
except an = one could use --bbao -wba='=' rather than listing every
single perl operator (except =) on a -wbb flag.

-Added -kis option (--keep-interior-semicolons). Use the B<-kis> flag
to prevent breaking at a semicolon if there was no break there in the
input file. To illustrate, consider the following input lines:

-ole (--output-line-ending) and -ple (--preserve-line-endings) should
now work on all systems rather than just unix systems. Thanks to Dan
Tyrell.

-Fixed problem of a warning issued for multiple subs for BEGIN subs
and other control subs. Thanks to Heiko Eissfeldt.
-Fixed problem where no space was introduced between a keyword or
bareword and a colon, such as:

( ref($result) eq 'HASH' && !%$result ) ? undef: $result;

Thanks to Niek.

-Added a utility program 'break_long_quotes.pl' to the examples directory of
the distribution. It breaks long quoted strings into a chain of concatenated
sub strings no longer than a selected length. Suggested by Michael Renner as
a perltidy feature but was judged to be best done in a separate program.

-Updated docs to remove extra < and >= from list of tokens
after which breaks are made by default. Thanks to Bob Kleemann.

-Removed improper uses of $_ to avoid conflicts with external calls, giving
error message similar to:
Modification of a read-only value attempted at
/usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy.pm line 6907.
Thanks to Michael Renner.

-Fixed problem when errorfile was not a plain filename or filehandle
in a call to Tidy.pm. The call
perltidy(source => \$input, destination => \$output, errorfile => \$err);
gave the following error message:
Not a GLOB reference at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy.pm line 3827.
Thanks to Michael Renner and Phillipe Bruhat.

-Fixed problem where -sot would not stack an opening token followed by
a side comment. Thanks to Jens Schicke.

A break at an equals is sometimes useful for preventing complex statements
from hitting the line length limit. The decision to do this was
over-eager in some cases and has been improved. Thanks to Royce Reece.

-qw quotes contained in braces, square brackets, and parens are being
treated more like those containers as far as stacking of tokens. Also
stack of closing tokens ending ');' will outdent to where the ');' would
have outdented if the closing stack is matched with a similar opening stack.

-Attribute argument lists are now correctly treated as quoted strings
and not formatted. This is the most important update in this version.
Thanks to Borris Zentner, Greg Ferguson, Steve Kirkup.

-Updated to recognize the defined or operator, //, to be released in Perl 10.
Thanks to Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni.

-A useful utility perltidyrc_dump.pl is included in the examples section. It
will read any perltidyrc file and write it back out in a standard format
(though comments are lost).

-Added option to have perltidy read and return a hash with the contents of a
perltidyrc file. This may be used by Leif Eriksen's tidyview code. This
feature is used by the demonstration program 'perltidyrc_dump.pl' in the
examples directory.

-Improved error checking in perltidyrc files. Unknown bare words were not
being caught.

-The --dump-options parameter now dumps parameters in the format required by a
perltidyrc file.

-V-Strings with underscores are now recognized.
For example: $v = v1.2_3;

-cti=3 option added which gives one extra indentation level to closing
tokens always. This provides more predictable closing token placement
than cti=2. If you are using cti=2 you might want to try cti=3.

-New parameters -fs, -fsb, -fse added to allow sections of code between #<<<
and #>>> to be passed through verbatim. This is enabled by default and turned
off by -nfs. Flags -fsb and -fse allow other beginning and ending markers.
Thanks to Wolfgang Werner and Marion Berryman for suggesting this.

-added flag -skp to put a space between all Perl keywords and following paren.
The default is to only do this for certain keywords. Suggested by
H.Merijn Brand.

-added flag -sfp to put a space between a function name and following paren.
The default is not to do this. Suggested by H.Merijn Brand.

-An error was fixed in which certain parameters in a .perltidyrc file given
without the equals sign were not recognized. That is,
'--brace-tightness 0' gave an error but '--brace-tightness=0' worked
ok. Thanks to Zac Hansen.

-An error preventing the -nwrs flag from working was corrected. Thanks to
Greg Ferguson.

-Corrected some alignment problems with entab option.

-A bug with the combination of -lp and -extrude was fixed (though this
combination doesn't really make sense). The bug was that a line with
a single zero would be dropped. Thanks to Cameron Hayne.

-Improved formatting for short trailing statements following a closing paren.
Thanks to Joe Matarazzo.

-The handling of the -icb (indent closing block braces) flag has been changed
slightly to provide more consistent and predictable formatting of complex
structures. Instead of giving a closing block brace the indentation of the
previous line, it is now given one extra indentation level. The two methods
give the same result if the previous line was a complete statement, as in this
example:

-The default has been changed to not do syntax checking with perl.
Use -syn if you want it. Perltidy is very robust now, and the -syn
flag now causes more problems than it's worth because of BEGIN blocks
(which get executed with perl -c). For example, perltidy will never
return when trying to beautify this code if -syn is used:

BEGIN { 1 while { }; }

Although this is an obvious error, perltidy is often run on untested
code which is more likely to have this sort of problem. A more subtle
example is:

BEGIN { use FindBin; }

which may hang on some systems using -syn if a shared file system is
unavailable.

-Changed style -gnu to use -cti=1 instead of -cti=2 (see next item).
In most cases it looks better. To recover the previous format, use
'-gnu -cti=2'

-Added flags -cti=n for finer control of closing token indentation.
-cti = 0 no extra indentation (default; same as -nicp)
-cti = 1 enough indentation so that the closing token
aligns with its opening token.
-cti = 2 one extra indentation level if the line has the form
); ]; or }; (same as -icp).

# perltidy -lp -cti=2
@month_of_year = (
'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'
);
This is backwards compatible with -icp. See revised manual for
details. Suggested by Mike Pennington.
-Added flag '--preserve-line-endings' or '-ple' to cause the output
line ending to be the same as in the input file, for unix, dos,
or mac line endings. Only works under unix. Suggested by
Rainer Hochschild.

-Added flag '--output-line-ending=s' or '-ole=s' where s=dos or win,
unix, or mac. Only works under unix.

-Files with Mac line endings should now be handled properly under unix
and dos without being passed through a converter.

-You may now include 'and', 'or', and 'xor' in the list following
'--want-break-after' to get line breaks after those keywords rather than
before them. Suggested by Rainer Hochschild.

-Corrected problem with command line option for -vtc=n and -vt=n. The
equals sign was being eaten up by the Windows shell so perltidy didn't
see it.

-fixed bug with -html with '=for pod2html' sections, in which code/pod
output order was incorrect. Thanks to Tassilo von Parseval.

-fixed bug when the -html flag is used, in which the following error
message, plus others, appear:
did not see <body> in pod2html output
This was caused by a change in the format of html output by pod2html
VERSION 1.04 (included with perl 5.8). Thanks to Tassilo von Parseval.

-Fixed bug where an __END__ statement would be mistaken for a label
if it is immediately followed by a line with a leading colon. Thanks
to John Bayes.
-Implemented guessing logic for brace types when it is ambiguous. This
has been on the TODO list a long time. Thanks to Boris Zentner for
an example.

-Long options may now be negated either as '--nolong-option'
or '--no-long-option'. Thanks to Philip Newton for the suggestion.

-added flag --html-entities or -hent which controls the use of
Html::Entities for html formatting. Use --nohtml-entities or -nhent to
prevent the use of Html::Entities to encode special symbols. The
default is -hent. Html::Entities when formatting perl text to escape
special symbols. This may or may not be the right thing to do,
depending on browser/language combinations. Thanks to Burak Gursoy for
this suggestion.

-Bareword strings with leading '-', like, '-foo' now count as 1 token
for horizontal tightness. This way $a{'-foo'}, $a{foo}, and $a{-foo}
are now all treated similarly. Thus, by default, OLD: $a{ -foo } will
now be NEW: $a{-foo}. Suggested by Mark Olesen.

-added 2 new flags to control spaces between keywords and opening parens:
-sak=s or --space-after-keyword=s, and
-nsak=s or --nospace-after-keyword=s, where 's' is a list of keywords.

The new default list of keywords which get a space is:

"my local our and or eq ne if else elsif until unless while for foreach
return switch case given when"

Use -sak=s and -nsak=s to add and remove keywords from this list,
respectively.

Explanation: Stephen Hildrey noted that perltidy was being inconsistent
in placing spaces between keywords and opening parens, and sent a patch
to give user control over this. The above list was selected as being
a reasonable default keyword list. Previously, perltidy
had a hardwired list which also included these keywords:

push pop shift unshift join split die

but did not have 'our'. Example: if you prefer to make perltidy behave
exactly as before, you can include the following two lines in your
.perltidyrc file:

-sak="push pop local shift unshift join split die"
-nsak="our"

-Corrected html error in .toc file when -frm -html is used (extra ");
browsers were tolerant of it.

-Switch/case or given/when syntax is now recognized. Its vertical alignment
is not great yet, but it parses ok. The words 'switch', 'case', 'given',
and 'when' are now treated as keywords. If this causes trouble with older
code, we could introduce a switch to deactivate it. Thanks to Stan Brown
and Jochen Schneider for recommending this.

-a new flag -frm or --frames will cause html output to be in a
frame, with table of contents in the left panel and formatted source
in the right panel. Try 'perltidy -html -frm somemodule.pm' for example.

-The new default for -html formatting is to pass the pod through Pod::Html.
The result is syntax colored code within your pod documents. This can be
deactivated with -npod. Thanks to those who have written to discuss this,
particularly Mark Olesen and Hugh Myers.

-the -olc (--outdent-long-comments) option works much better. It now outdents
groups of consecutive comments together, and by just the amount needed to
avoid having any one line exceeding the maximum line length.

-block comments are now trimmed of trailing whitespace.

-if a directory specified with -opath does not exist, it will be created.

-a table of contents to packages and subs is output when -html is used.
Use -ntoc to prevent this.

-fixed an unusual bug in which a 'for' statement following a 'format'
statement was not correctly tokenized. Thanks to Boris Zentner for
catching this.

-Tidy.pm is no longer dependent on modules IO::Scalar and IO::ScalarArray.
There were some speed issues. Suggested by Joerg Walter.

-The treatment of quoted wildcards (file globs) is now system-independent.
For example

perltidy 'b*x.p[lm]'

would match box.pl, box.pm, brinx.pm under any operating system. Of
course, anything unquoted will be subject to expansion by any shell.

-default color for keywords under -html changed from
SaddleBrown (#8B4513) to magenta4 (#8B008B).

-fixed an arg parsing glitch in which something like:
perltidy quick-help
would trigger the help message and exit, rather than operate on the
file 'quick-help'.

-New option '-b' or '--backup-and-modify-in-place' will cause perltidy to
overwrite the original file with the tidied output file. The original
file will be saved with a '.bak' extension (which can be changed with
-bext=s). Thanks to Rudi Farkas for the suggestion.

-An index to all subs is included at the top of -html output, unless
only the <pre> section is written.

-Anchor lines of the form <a name="mysub"></a> are now inserted at key points
in html output, such as before sub definitions, for the convenience of
postprocessing scripts. Suggested by Howard Owen.

-Fixed bug in which an extra blank line was added before an =head or
similar pod line after an __END__ or __DATA__ line each time
perltidy was run. Also, an extra blank was being added after
a terminal =cut. Thanks to Mike Birdsall for reporting this.

-Fixed problem with the '-io' ('--indent-only') where all lines
were double spaced. Thanks to Nick Andrew for reporting this bug.

-Fixed tokenization error in which something like '-e1' was
parsed as a number.

-Corrected a rare problem involving older perl versions, in which
a line break before a bareword caused problems with 'use strict'.
Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for noting this.

-More syntax error checking added.

-Outdenting labels (-ola) has been made the default, in order to follow the
perlstyle guidelines better. It's probably a good idea in general, but
if you do not want this, use -nola in your .perltidyrc file.
-Updated rules for padding logical expressions to include more cases.
Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful discussions.

-Corrected a bug, introduced in the previous release, in which some
closing side comments (-csc) could have incorrect text. This is
annoying but will be correct the next time perltidy is run with -csc.

-Implemented XHTML patch submitted by Ville Skyttä.

-Fixed bug where whitespace was being removed between 'Bar' and '()'
in a use statement like:

use Foo::Bar ();

Thanks to Ville Skyttä for reporting this.

-Whenever possible, if a logical expression is broken with leading
'&&', '||', 'and', or 'or', then the leading line will be padded
with additional space to produce alignment. This has been on the
todo list for a long time; thanks to Frank Steinhauer for reminding
me to do it. Notice the first line after the open parens here:

-Code cleaned up by removing the following unused, undocumented flags.
They should not be in any .perltidyrc files because they were just
experimental flags which were never documented. Most of them placed
artificial limits on spaces, and Wolfgang Weisselberg convinced me that
most of them they do more harm than good by causing unexpected results.

-Pod file 'perltidy.pod' has been appended to the script 'perltidy', and
Tidy.pod has been append to the module 'Tidy.pm'. Older MakeMaker's
were having trouble.
-A new flag -isbc has been added for more control on comments. This flag
has the effect that if there is no leading space on the line, then the
comment will not be indented, and otherwise it may be. If both -ibc and
-isbc are set, then -isbc takes priority. Thanks to Frank Steinhauer
for suggesting this.

-A new document 'stylekey.pod' has been created to quickly guide new users
through the maze of perltidy style parameters. An html version is
on the perltidy web page. Take a look! It should be very helpful.

-Parameters for controlling 'vertical tightness' have been added:
-vt and -vtc are the main controls, but finer control is provided
with -pvt, -pcvt, -bvt, -bcvt, -sbvt, -sbcvt. Block brace vertical
tightness controls have also been added.
See updated manual and also see 'stylekey.pod'. Simple examples:

-Corrected problem where an incorrect html filename was generated for
external calls to Tidy.pm module. Fixed incorrect html title when
Tidy.pm is called with IO::Scalar or IO::Array source.

-Output file permissons are now set as follows. An output script file
gets the same permission as the input file, except that owner
read/write permission is added (otherwise, perltidy could not be
rerun). Html output files use system defaults. Previously chmod 0755
was used in all cases. Thanks to Mark Olesen for bringing this up.

-Missing semicolons will not be added in multi-line blocks of type
sort, map, or grep. This brings perltidy into closer agreement
with common practice. Of course, you can still put semicolons
there if you like. Thanks to Simon Perreault for a discussion of this.

-Most instances of extra semicolons are now deleted. This is
particularly important if the -csc option is used. Thanks to Wolfgang
Weisselberg for noting this. For example, the following line
(produced by 'h2xs' :) has an extra semicolon which will now be
removed:

BEGIN { plan tests => 1 };

-New parameter -csce (--closing-side-comment-else-flag) can be used
to control what text is appended to 'else' and 'elsif' blocks.
Default is to just add leading 'if' text to an 'else'. See manual.

-The -csc option now labels 'else' blocks with additinal information
from the opening if statement and elsif statements, if space.
Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for suggesting this.

-The -csc option will now remove any old closing side comments
below the line interval threshold. Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for
suggesting this.

-The abbreviation feature, which was broken in the previous version,
is now fixed. Thanks to Michael Cartmell for noting this.

-Vertical alignment is now done for '||=' .. somehow this was
overlooked.

-This version uses modules for the first time, and a standard perl
Makefile.PL has been supplied. However, perltidy may still be
installed as a single script, without modules. See INSTALL for
details.

-The man page 'perl2web' has been merged back into the main 'perltidy'
man page to simplify installation. So you may remove that man page
if you have an older installation.

-Added patch from Axel Rose for MacPerl. The patch prompts the user
for command line arguments before calling the module
Perl::Tidy::perltidy.

-Corrected bug with '-bar' which was introduced in the previous
version. A closing block brace was being indented. Thanks to
Alexandros M Manoussakis for reporting this.

-New parameter '--entab-leading-whitespace=n', or '-et=n', has been
added for those who prefer tabs. This behaves different from the
existing '-t' parameter; see updated man page. Suggested by Mark
Olesen.

-New parameter '--perl-syntax-check-flags=s' or '-pcsf=s' can be
used to change the flags passed to perltidy in a syntax check.
See updated man page. Suggested by Mark Olesen.

-New parameter '--output-path=s' or '-opath=s' will cause output
files to be placed in directory s. See updated man page. Thanks for
Mark Olesen for suggesting this.

-New parameter --dump-profile (or -dpro) will dump to
standard output information about the search for a
configuration file, the name of whatever configuration file
is selected, and its contents. This should help debugging
config files, especially on different Windows systems.

-The -w parameter now notes possible errors of the form:

$comment = s/^\s*(\S+)\..*/$1/; # trim whitespace

-Corrections added for a leading ':' and for leaving a leading 'tcsh'
line untouched. Mark Olesen reported that lines of this form were
accepted by perl but not by perltidy:

Perl will silently swallow a leading colon on line 1 of a
script, and now perltidy will do likewise. For example,
this is a valid script, provided that it is the first line,
but not otherwise:

: print "Hello World\n";
Also, perltidy will now mark a first line with leading ':' followed by
'#' as type SYSTEM (just as a #! line), not to be formatted.

-List formatting improved for certain lists with special
initial terms, such as occur with 'printf', 'sprintf',
'push', 'pack', 'join', 'chmod'. The special initial term is
now placed on a line by itself. For example, perltidy -gnu

-The perl syntax check will be turned off for now when input is from
standard input or standard output. The reason is that this requires
temporary files, which has produced far too many problems during
Windows testing. For example, the POSIX module under Windows XP/2000
creates temporary names in the root directory, to which only the
administrator should have permission to write.

-Added patch to properly handle a for/foreach loop without
parens around a list represented as a qw. I didn't know this
was possible until Wolfgang Weisselberg pointed it out:

foreach my $key qw\Uno Due Tres Quadro\ {
print "Set $key\n";
}

But Perl will give a syntax error without the $ variable; ie this will
not work:

foreach qw\Uno Due Tres Quadro\ {
print "Set $_\n";
}

-Merged Windows version detection code sent by Yves Orton. Perltidy
now automatically turns off syntax checking for Win 9x/ME versions,
and this has solved a lot of robustness problems. These systems
cannot reliably handle backtick operators. See man page for
details.
-Merged VMS filename handling patch sent by Michael Cartmell. (Invalid
output filenames were being created in some cases).

-Numerous minor improvements have been made for -lp style indentation.

-This version is about 20 percent faster than the previous
version as a result of optimization work. The largest gain
came from switching to a dispatch hash table in the
tokenizer.

-perltidy -html will check to see if HTML::Entities is
installed, and if so, it will use it to encode unsafe
characters.

-Added flag -oext=ext to change the output file extension to
be different from the default ('tdy' or 'html'). For
example:

perltidy -html -oext=htm filename

will produce filename.htm

-Added flag -cscw to issue warnings if a closing side comment would replace
an existing, different side comments. See the man page for details.
Thanks to Peter Masiar for helpful discussions.

-Corrected tokenization error of signed hex/octal/binary numbers. For
example, the first hex number below would have been parsed correctly
but the second one was not:
if ( ( $tmp >= 0x80_00_00 ) || ( $tmp < -0x80_00_00 ) ) { }

-'**=' was incorrectly tokenized as '**' and '='. This only
caused a problem with the -extrude opton.

-Corrected a divide by zero when -extrude option is used

-The flag -w will now contain all errors reported by 'perl -c' on the
input file, but otherwise they are not reported. The reason is that
perl will report lots of problems and syntax errors which are not of
interest when only a small snippet is being formatted (such as missing
modules and unknown bare words). Perltidy will always report all
significant syntax errors that it finds, such as unbalanced braces,
unless the -q (quiet) flag is set.

-Merged modifications created by Hugh Myers into perltidy.
These include a 'streamhandle' routine which allows perltidy
as a module to operate on input and output arrays and strings
in addition to files. Documentation and new packaging as a
module should be ready early next year; This is an elegant,
powerful update; many thanks to Hugh for contributing it.

-added a tentative patch which tries to keep any existing breakpoints
at lines with leading keywords map,sort,eval,grep. The idea is to
improve formatting of sequences of list operations, as in a schwartzian
transform. Example:

The new alignment is not as nice as the input, but this is an improvement.
Thanks to Yves Orton for this suggestion.

-modified indentation logic so that a line with leading opening paren,
brace, or square bracket will never have less indentation than the
line with the corresponding opening token. Here's a simple example:

Note how the closing ');' is lined up with the first line, even
though it closes a paren in the 'pack' line. That seems wrong.
NEW:
$mw->Button(
-text => "New Document",
-command => \&new_document
)->pack(
-side => 'bottom',
-anchor => 'e'
);

This seems nicer: you can up-arrow with an editor and arrive at the
opening 'pack' line.
-corrected minor glitch in which cuddled else (-ce) did not get applied
to an 'unless' block, which should look like this:

unless ($test) {

} else {

}

Thanks to Jeremy Mates for reporting this.

-The man page has been reorganized to parameters easier to find.
-Added check for multiple definitions of same subroutine. It is easy
to introduce this problem when cutting and pasting. Perl does not
complain about it, but it can lead to disaster.

-The command -pro=filename or -profile=filename may be used to specify a
configuration file which will override the default name of .perltidyrc.
There must not be a space on either side of the '=' sign. I needed
this to be able to easily test perltidy with a variety of different
configuration files.

-New command -ssc (--static-side-comment) and related command allows
side comments to be spaced close to preceding character. This is
useful for displaying commented code as side comments.

-New command -csc (--closing-side-comment) and several related
commands allow comments to be added to (and deleted from) any or all
closing block braces. This can be useful if you have to maintain large
programs, especially those that you didn't write. See updated man page.
Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion. For a simple example:

This added '## end sub foo' to the closing brace.
To remove it, perltidy -ncsc.

-New commands -ola, for outdenting labels, and -okw, for outdenting
selected control keywords, were implemented. See the perltidy man
page for details. Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion.

-Hanging side comment change: a comment will not be considered to be a
hanging side comment if there is no leading whitespace on the line.
This should improve the reliability of identifying hanging side comments.
Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion.

-Two new commands for outdenting, -olq (outdent-long-quotes) and -olc
(outdent-long-comments), have been added. The original -oll
(outdent-long-lines) remains, and now is an abbreviation for -olq and -olc.
The new default is just -olq. This was necessary to avoid inconsistency with
the new static block comment option.

-Static block comments: to provide a way to display commented code
better, the convention is used that comments with a leading '##' should
not be formatted as usual. Please see '-sbc' (or '--static-block-comment')
for documentation. It can be deactivated with with -nsbc, but
should not normally be necessary. Thanks to Peter Masiar for this
suggestion.

-Two changes were made to help show structure of complex lists:
(1) breakpoints are forced after every ',' in a list where any of
the list items spans multiple lines, and
(2) List items which span multiple lines now get continuation indentation.

The following example illustrates both of these points. Many thanks to
Wolfgang Weisselberg for this snippet and a discussion of it; this is a
significant formatting improvement. Note how it is easier to see the call
parameters in the NEW version:

-The structure of nested logical expressions is now displayed better.
Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful discussions. For example,
note how the status of the final 'or' is displayed in the following:

-For convenience, the command -dac (--delete-all-comments) now also
deletes pod. Likewise, -tac (--tee-all-comments) now also sends pod
to a '.TEE' file. Complete control over the treatment of pod and
comments is still possible, as described in the updated help message
and man page.

-The logic which breaks open 'containers' has been rewritten to be completely
symmetric in the following sense: if a line break is placed after an opening
{, [, or (, then a break will be placed before the corresponding closing
token. Thus, a container either remains closed or is completely cracked
open.

-Correspondence between Input and Output line numbers reported in a
.LOG file should now be exact. They were sometimes off due to the size
of intermediate buffers.

-Corrected minor tokenization error in which a ';' in a foreach loop
control was tokenized as a statement termination, which forced a
line break:

OLD:
foreach ( $i = 0;
$i <= 10;
$i += 2
)
{
print "$i ";
}

NEW:
foreach ( $i = 0 ; $i <= 10 ; $i += 2 ) {
print "$i ";
}

-Corrected a problem with reading config files, in which quote marks were not
stripped. As a result, something like -wba="&& . || " would have the leading
quote attached to the && and not work correctly. A workaround for older
versions is to place a space around all tokens within the quotes, like this:
-wba=" && . || "

-Removed any existing space between a label and its ':'
OLD : { }
NEW: { }
This was necessary because the label and its colon are a single token.

-Corrected tokenization error for the following (highly non-recommended)
construct:
$user = @vars[1] / 100;
-Resolved cause of a difference between perltidy under perl v5.6.1 and
5.005_03; the problem was different behavior of \G regex position
marker(!)

-Corrected a bug in which a break was not being made after a full-line
comment within a short eval/sort/map/grep block. A flag was not being
zeroed. The syntax error check catches this. Here is a snippet which
illustrates the bug:

eval {
#open Socket to Dispatcher
$sock = &OpenSocket;
};

The formatter mistakenly thought that it had found the following
one-line block:
eval {#open Socket to Dispatcher$sock = &OpenSocket; };

The patch fixes this. Many thanks to Henry Story for reporting this bug.

-Changes were made to help diagnose and resolve problems in a
.perltidyrc file:
(1) processing of command parameters has been into two separate
batches so that any errors in a .perltidyrc file can be localized.
(2) commands --help, --version, and as many of the --dump-xxx
commands are handled immediately, without any command line processing
at all.
(3) Perltidy will ignore any commands in the .perltidyrc file which
cause immediate exit. These are: -h -v -ddf -dln -dop -dsn -dtt
-dwls -dwrs -ss. Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful
suggestions regarding these updates.

-Syntax check has been reinstated as default for MSWin32 systems. This
way Windows 2000 users will get syntax check by default, which seems
like a better idea, since the number of Win 95/98 systems will be
decreasing over time. Documentation revised to warn Windows 95/98
users about the problem with empty '&1'. Too bad these systems
all report themselves as MSWin32.

Thanks to David Holden for reporting this.
-Added -html control over pod text, using a new abbreviation 'pd'. See
updated perl2web man page. The default is to use the color of a comment,
but italicized. Old .css style sheets will need a new line for
.pd to use this. The old color was the color of a string, and there
was no control.
-.css lines are now printed in sorted order.

-Fixed interpolation problem where html files had '$input_file' as title
instead of actual input file name. Thanks to Simon Perreault for finding
this and sending a patch, and also to Tobias Weber.

-Breaks will now have the ':' placed at the start of a line,
one per line by default because this shows logical structure
more clearly. This coding has been completely redone. Some
examples of new ?/: formatting:

NEW:
$which_search =
$opts{"t"} ? 'title'
: $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
: $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
: 'title';
You can use -wba=':' to recover the previous default which placed ':'
at the end of a line. Thanks to Michael Cartmell for helpful
discussions and examples.

-Tokenizer updated to do syntax checking for matched ?/: pairs. Also,
the tokenizer now outputs a unique serial number for every balanced
pair of brace types and ?/: pairs. This greatly simplifies the
formatter.

-Long lines with repeated 'and', 'or', '&&', '||' will now have
one such item per line. For example:

NOTE: at present 'short' means 8 characters or less. There is a
tentative flag to change this (-scl), but it is undocumented and
is likely to be changed or removed later, so only use it for testing.
In the above example, the tokens " ID:", " CRC:", and "\n" are below
this limit.

-If a line which is short enough to fit on a single line was
nevertheless broken in the input file at a 'good' location (see below),
perltidy will try to retain a break. For example, the following line
will be formatted as:
open SUM, "<$file"
or die "Cannot open $file ($!)";
if it was broken in the input file, and like this if not:

open SUM, "<$file" or die "Cannot open $file ($!)";

GOOD: 'good' location means before 'and','or','if','unless','&&','||'

The reason perltidy does not just always break at these points is that if
there are multiple, similar statements, this would preclude alignment. So
rather than check for this, perltidy just tries to follow the input style,
in the hopes that the author made a good choice. Here is an example where
we might not want to break before each 'if':

-Added wildcard file expansion for systems with shells which lack this.
Now 'perltidy *.pl' should work under MSDOS/Windows. Thanks to Hugh Myers
for suggesting this. This uses builtin glob() for now; I may change that.

-Added new flag -sbl which, if specified, overrides the value of -bl
for opening sub braces. This allows formatting of this type:

-Fixed error of multiple use of abbreviatioin '-dsc'. -dsc remains
abbreviation for delete-side-comments; -dsm is new abbreviation for
delete-semicolons.

-Corrected and updated 'usage' help routine. Thanks to Slaven Rezic for
noting an error.

-The default for Windows is, for now, not to do a 'perl -c' syntax
check (but -syn will activate it). This is because of problems with
command.com. James Freeman sent me a patch which tries to get around
the problems, and it works in many cases, but testing revealed several
issues that still need to be resolved. So for now, the default is no
syntax check for Windows.

-I added a -T flag when doing perl -c syntax check.
This is because I test it on a large number of scripts from sources
unknown, and who knows what might be hidden in initialization blocks?
Also, deactivated the syntax check if perltidy is run as root. As a
benign example, running the previous version of perltidy on the
following file would cause it to disappear:

BEGIN{
print "Bye, bye baby!\n";
unlink $0;
}
The new version will not let that happen.

-I am contemplating (but have not yet implemented) making '-lp' the
default indentation, because it is stable now and may be closer to how
perl is commonly formatted. This could be in the next release. The
reason that '-lp' was not the original default is that the coding for
it was complex and not ready for the initial release of perltidy. If
anyone has any strong feelings about this, I'd like to hear. The
current default could always be recovered with the '-nlp' flag.

-html updates:
- sub definition names are now specially colored, red by default.
The letter 'm' is used to identify them.
- keyword 'sub' now has color of other keywords.
- restored html keyword color to __END__ and __DATA__, which was
accidentally removed in the previous version.

-A new -se (--standard-error-output) flag has been implemented and
documented which causes all errors to be written to standard output
instead of a .ERR file.

-A new -w (--warning-output) flag has been implemented and documented
which causes perltidy to output certain non-critical messages to the
error output file, .ERR. These include complaints about pod usage,
for example. The default is to not include these.

NOTE: This replaces an undocumented -w=0 or --warning-level flag
which was tentatively introduced in the previous version to avoid some
unwanted messages. The new default is the same as the old -w=0, so
that is no longer needed.

-Improved syntax checking and corrected tokenization of functions such
as rand, srand, sqrt, ... These can accept either an operator or a term
to their right. This has been corrected.
-Corrected tokenization of semicolon: testing of the previous update showed
that the semicolon in the following statement was being mis-tokenized. That
did no harm, other than adding an extra blank space, but has been corrected.

for (sort {strcoll($a,$b);} keys %investments) {
...
}

-New syntax check: after wasting 5 minutes trying to resolve a syntax
error in which I had an extra terminal ';' in a complex for (;;) statement,
I spent a few more minutes adding a check for this in perltidy so it won't
happen again.

-The behavior of --break-before-subs (-bbs) and --break-before-blocks
(-bbb) has been modified. Also, a new control parameter,
--long-block-line-count=n (-lbl=n) has been introduced to give more
control on -bbb. This was previously a hardwired value. The reason
for the change is to reduce the number of unwanted blank lines that
perltidy introduces, and make it less erratic. It's annoying to remove
an unwanted blank line and have perltidy put it back. The goal is to
be able to sprinkle a few blank lines in that dense script you
inherited from Bubba. I did a lot of experimenting with different
schemes for introducing blank lines before and after code blocks, and
decided that there is no really good way to do it. But I think the new
scheme is an improvement. You can always deactivate this with -nbbb.
I've been meaning to work on this; thanks to Erik Thaysen for bringing
it to my attention.

-The .LOG file is seldom needed, and I get tired of deleting them, so
they will now only be automatically saved if perltidy thinks that it
made an error, which is almost never. You can still force the logfile
to be saved with -log or -g.

-Improved method for computing number of columns in a table. The old
method always tried for an even number. The new method allows odd
numbers when it is obvious that a list is not a hash initialization
list.

-I updated the tokenizer to allow $#+ and $#-, which seem to be new to
Perl 5.6. Some experimenting with a recent version of Perl indicated
that it allows these non-alphanumeric '$#' array maximum index
varaibles: $#: $#- $#+ so I updated the parser accordingly. Only $#:
seems to be valid in older versions of Perl.

-Revised method for testing here-doc target strings; the following
was causing trouble with a regex test because of the '*' characters:
print <<"*EOF*";
bla bla
*EOF*
Perl seems to allow almost anything to be a here doc target, so an
exact string comparison is now used.

-Made update to allow underscores in binary numbers, like '0b1100_0000'.

-Corrected problem with scanning certain module names; a blank space was
being inserted after 'warnings' in the following:
use warnings::register;
The problem was that warnings (and a couple of other key modules) were
being tokenized as keywords. They should have just been identifiers.

-Corrected tokenization of indirect objects after sort, system, and exec,
after testing produced an incorrect error message for the following
line of code:
print sort $sortsubref @list;

-Corrected minor problem where a line after a format had unwanted
extra continuation indentation.

-Delete-block-comments (and -dac) now retain any leading hash-bang line

-Update for -lp (and -gnu) to not align the leading '=' of a list
with a previous '=', since this interferes with alignment of parameters.

-Corrected minor, uncommon bug found during routine testing, in which a
blank got inserted between a function name and its opening paren after
a file test operator, but only in the case that the function had not
been previously seen. Perl uses the existence (or lack thereof) of
the blank to guess if it is a function call. That is,
if (-l pid_filename()) {
became
if (-l pid_filename ()) {
which is a syntax error if pid_filename has not been seen by perl.

-If the AutoLoader module is used, perltidy will continue formatting
code after seeing an __END__ line. Use -nlal to deactivate this feature.
Likewise, if the SelfLoader module is used, perltidy will continue
formatting code after seeing a __DATA__ line. Use -nlsl to
deactivate this feature. Thanks to Slaven Rezic for this suggestion.

-pod text after __END__ and __DATA__ is now identified by perltidy
so that -dp works correctly. Thanks to Slaven Rezic for this suggestion.

-The first $VERSION line which might be eval'd by MakeMaker
is now passed through unchanged. Use -npvl to deactivate this feature.
Thanks to Manfred Winter for this suggestion.

-Fixed a very rare problem in which an unwanted semicolon was inserted
due to misidentification of anonymous hash reference curly as a code
block curly. (No instances of this have been reported; I discovered it
during testing). A workaround for older versions of perltidy is to use
-nasc.

-Added -icb (-indent-closing-brace) parameter to indent a brace which
terminates a code block to the same level as the previous line.
Suggested by Andrew Cutler. For example,

if ($task) {
yyy();
} # -icb
else {
zzz();
}

-Rewrote error message triggered by an unknown bareword in a print or
printf filehandle position, and added flag -w=0 to prevent issuing this
error message. Suggested by Byron Jones.

-the directory of test files has been moved to a separate distribution
file because it is getting large but is of little interest to most users.
For the current distribution:
perltidy-20010701.tgz contains the source and docs for perltidy
perltidy-20010701-test.tgz contains the test files

-fixed bug where temporary file perltidy.TMPI was not being deleted
when input was from stdin.

-adjusted line break logic to not break after closing brace of an
eval block (suggested by Boris Zentner).

-added flag -gnu (--gnu-style) to give an approximation to the GNU
style as sometimes applied to perl. The programming style in GNU
'automake' was used as a guide in setting the parameters; these
parameters will probably be adjusted over time.

-an empty code block now has one space for emphasis:
if ( $cmd eq "bg_untested" ) {} # old
if ( $cmd eq "bg_untested" ) { } # new
If this bothers anyone, we could create a parameter.

-the -bt (--brace-tightness) parameter has been split into two
parameters to give more control. -bt now applies only to non-BLOCK
braces, while a new parameter -bbt (block-brace-tightness) applies to
curly braces which contain code BLOCKS. The default value is -bbt=0.

-added flag -icp (--indent-closing-paren) which leaves a statement
termination of the form );, };, or ]; indented with the same
indentation as the previous line. For example,

-html corrected to use -nohtml-bold-xxxxxxx or -nhbx to negate bold,
and likewise -nohtml-italic-xxxxxxx or -nhbi to negate italic. There
was no way to negate these previously. html documentation updated and
corrected. (Suggested by Wolfgang Weisselberg).

-Some modifications have been made which improve the -lp formatting in
a few cases.

-Perltidy now retains or creates a blank line after an =cut to keep
podchecker happy (Suggested by Manfred H. Winter). This appears to be
a glitch in podchecker, but it was annoying.

-Added -bli flag to give continuation indentation to braces, like this

if ($bli_flag)
{
extra_indentation();
}

-Corrected an error with the tab (-t) option which caused the last line
of a multi-line quote to receive a leading tab. This error was in
version 2001 06 08 but not 2001 04 06. If you formatted a script
with -t with this version, please check it by running once with the
-chk flag and perltidy will scan for this possible error.

-Corrected an invalid pattern (\R should have been just R), changed
$^W =1 to BEGIN {$^W=1} to use warnings in compile phase, and corrected
several unnecessary 'my' declarations. Many thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg,
2001-06-12, for catching these errors.
-A '-bar' flag has been added to require braces to always be on the
right, even for multi-line if and foreach statements. For example,
the default formatting of a long if statement would be:

-An '-lp' flag (--line-up-parentheses) has been added which causes lists
to be indented with extra indentation in the manner sometimes
associated with emacs or the GNU suggestions. Thanks to Ian Stuart for
this suggestion and for extensive help in testing it.

-Subroutine call parameter lists are now formatted as other lists.
This should improve formatting of tables being passed via subroutine
calls. This will also cause full indentation ('-i=n, default n= 4) of
continued parameter list lines rather than just the number of spaces
given with -ci=n, default n=2.
-Added support for hanging side comments. Perltidy identifies a hanging
side comment as a comment immediately following a line with a side
comment or another hanging side comment. This should work in most
cases. It can be deactivated with --no-hanging-side-comments (-nhsc).
The manual has been updated to discuss this. Suggested by Brad
Eisenberg some time ago, and finally implemented.

-added two command line flags, --want-break-after and
--want-break-before, which allow changing whether perltidy
breaks lines before or after any operators. Please see the revised
man pages for details.

-added system-wide configuration file capability.
If perltidy does not find a .perltidyrc command line file in
the current directory, nor in the home directory, it now looks
for '/usr/local/etc/perltidyrc' and then for '/etc/perltidyrc'.
(Suggested by Roger Espel Llima 2001-05-31).

-fixed problem in which spaces were trimmed from lines of a multi-line
quote. (Reported by Roger Espel Llima 2001-05-30). This is an
uncommon situation, but serious, because it could conceivably change
the proper function of a script.

-fixed problem in which a semicolon was incorrectly added within
an anonymous hash. (Reported by A.C. Yardley, 2001-5-23).
(You would know if this happened, because perl would give a syntax
error for the resulting script).

-fixed problem in which an incorrect error message was produced
after a version number on a 'use' line, like this ( Reported
by Andres Kroonmaa, 2001-5-14):

-fixed serious bug in which the last line of some multi-line quotes or
patterns was given continuation indentation spaces. This may make
a pattern incorrect unless it uses the /x modifier. To find
instances of this error in scripts which have been formatted with
earlier versions of perltidy, run with the -chk flag, which has
been added for this purpose (SLH, 2001-04-05).

(requested by Michael Langner 2001-03-31; in the future this could
be controlled by a command-line parameter).

-revised list indentation logic, so that lists following an assignment
operator get one full indentation level, rather than just continuation
indentation. Also corrected some minor glitches in the continuation
indentation logic.

-Fixed problem with unwanted continuation indentation after a blank line
(reported by Erik Thaysen 2001-03-28):

-corrected serious error tokenizing filehandles, in which a sub call
after a print or printf, like this:
print usage() and exit;
became this:
print usage () and exit;
Unfortunately, this converts 'usage' to a filehandle. To fix this, rerun
perltidy; it will look for this situation and issue a warning.